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EMAIL: Extended Characters in SUBJECT field
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| Sean O'Dwyer 2004-04-28, 1:38 am |
| Using this code, as I've used for ages in many scripts, causes an error
on a Spanish language site I'm devloping.
print MAIL "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
print MAIL "Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\n";
print MAIL "Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable\n";
print MAIL "Subject: Confirmacion\n\n";
"Confirmacion" should have an accent over the second "o" but my
newsreader won't let me type the character directly.
The error is that sendmail sends the e-mail correctly, but the recipient
sees the subject messily formatted as...
Subject: =?UNKNOWN?Q?Confirmaci=F3n?=
How can I encode this character properly in the script, so the accent
appears over the "o"?
(The Perl source file is uploaded as ISO Western Latin 1.)
Thanks in advance,
Sean
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| Villy Kruse 2004-04-28, 4:33 am |
| On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 04:44:15 GMT,
Sean O'Dwyer <nospam@spamfree.dud> wrote:
> Using this code, as I've used for ages in many scripts, causes an error
> on a Spanish language site I'm devloping.
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> print MAIL "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
> print MAIL "Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\n";
> print MAIL "Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable\n";
> print MAIL "Subject: Confirmacion\n\n";
>
> "Confirmacion" should have an accent over the second "o" but my
> newsreader won't let me type the character directly.
>
> The error is that sendmail sends the e-mail correctly, but the recipient
> sees the subject messily formatted as...
>
> Subject: =?UNKNOWN?Q?Confirmaci=F3n?=
>
The rfc2047 document tells you all about it. The text "UNKNOWN" should
have been "iso-8859-1" and the receiver would be very happy.
Villy
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